Fred and Anneliese on the
Lake
Champlain ferry from Plattsburgh, NY to South Hero, VT.Fred's first glimpse of beautiful
Lake Champlain!

Good map of the islands (click
to open in a new window then click again to enlarge).Bert and Stephen's camp is
on Oak Ridge Lane off North End Road Westat the northern end of the
northern part of North Hero Island (that's a lot of NORTH).

Fred takes out the rowboat
Stephen saved from drifting aimlessly down the lake...

getting the hang of it!

Liese watches from the dock

Now to take Anneliese for
a row...

the gorgeous sky over the
lake

Uncle Stephen makes a stop
in Burlington to get him and TIM comes to the island!

Anneliese, Tim, Fred on the
dock

Aunt Bert watering her island
garden

black-eyed Susans

late summer garden

Liese enjoying one of Uncle
Stephen's perfectly roasted marshmallows

Uncle Stephen's deluxe marshmallow
sticks, made from metal hangers

Tim retrieves his darts from
the board

Burlington! In front of Tim's
house.Tim's holding all his winter
coats which we brought up from Jersey.

wood-burning brick fireplace
in Tim's house

Tim demonstrates the trampoline
in his backyard

This graffiti-splattered place
is the "beer pong" room of Tim's basement

another view of the pong setup
and the tagged walls

Bert in front of a former
firehouse turned art gallery

Burlington City Hall

The only moving neon marquee
in Vermont (they're outlawed now; it was grandfathered in)at Nectar's, the
tiny club where jam band Phish (originally a UVM band) started out

messy entrance to (the underground)
Pure Pop, Burlington's great independent record store

some of the colorful display
racks at Pure Pop

Radiohead poster purchased
to decorate Tim's room

Window displays at Old
Gold, purveyor of vintage 60s and 70s wear

Old armory, now vacant and
available...

The bar at Pacfic Rim

The ceiling at Pacific Rim

Bert and Deb inside Pacific
Rim

Fred and Tim practice their
chopstick technique

Anneliese and Aunt Bert at
Pacific Rim--the blondes. having more fun!

Deb and Tim at Pacific Rim

Uncle Stephen at Pacific Rim

leaving Tim behind in the
big city, we return to the lake for a couple more nightshere's Liese reading in the
morning sun

Skipper Stephen aboard his
pleasure craft

Aunt Bert bathed in gold,
on the beach at sunset

admiring the sunset

as always, we saw some spectacular
sunsets over the lake

crazy beautiful, and oh-so-temporary

sometimes it's cloudy all
day and the sun comes out JUST to give you a gorgeous sunset!

Neighbor George tugs his sailboat
down the misty lake on our last night

Our gracious hosts, Captain
and Mrs. Bob-a-Lot

It was an unusual trip to Vermont,
the first when we did not see Judy and Dylanat all and the first when
we were VISITING Tim, not bringing him up with us.Also Fred's first trip to
the state (and it's only his fifth state!)